Attributed to Raffaellino del Colle

Raphael's Fornarina, his half-length portrait of a young woman with a striped cloth wound round her head, hangs in Palazzo Barberini on the other side of Rome. Tradition names her Margherita Luti, a baker's daughter from Trastevere, and the nickname comes from that. The Galleria Borghese owns a close copy, which carries this attribution line.

Raffaellino del Colle, from Sansepolcro in Tuscany, was an assistant in Raphael's shop and after Raphael's death in 1520 stayed on with Giulio Romano, the pupil who took the workshop over. Attributed to means the museum thinks the copy is probably his without being certain. It was called a Giulio Romano in 1824 and a Sassoferrato, the 17th-century painter known for copying Raphael, in 1893, before the scholar Frederick Hartt proposed Raffaellino in 1944. The copy is on canvas laid down on panel, the ring on the woman's left hand is missing, and its background has darkened far more than the original's.